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President
DR. CLANTON W. WILLIAMS
Dr. Clanton Ware Williams, nationally known historian and author who became the fourth University
of Houston President in 1956, began his academic
career in 1929 when he joined the faculty of the
University of Alabama, with which institution he was
associated for twenty-five years.
He received his A.B. degree from Davidson College; his M.A. from the LIniversity of Alabama; and
a Ph.D. degree in History from Vanderbilt University.
During World War II Dr. Williams served as the
Army Air Forces Historian in ranks from captain to
colonel. In recognition of his distinguished service,
besides campaign ribbons, he was awarded the Army
Commendation Ribbon with three oak leaf clusters,
and also the Legion of Merit.
In 1946, Dr. Williams was named special consultant to the Department of Defense. An appointment
as consultant to the U. S. Commission of Education
followed in 1948.
Dr. Williams was recalled to active duty during the
Korean War at which time he served as a staff officer
of the Air University.
Message to Students
Into the social and economic bloodstream of the
great metropolitan and industrial complex whose center is Houston, Texas—into the arterial system of
Texas and the Southwest and of areas far beyond—
pours from a relatively young but powerful new university a steady infusion of new strength.
An alphabetical listing of the many types of graduates who go forth from this institution of learning
begins with accountants, agricultural economists, architects, artists. It ends with physiologists, psychologists,
trade and transportation experts, zoologists. There are
in fact 207 degree plans offered by this great seat of
learning.
It is difficult to analyze the impact of this university upon the area it serves. The expected earning
power of its products because they did attend the
University of Houston is already in excess of a quarter of a billion dollars a year.
And this says nothing about professional skills,
technical competence, or culture in general. Nor can
one weigh in dollars the influence of more than eight
thousand school teachers who have been graduated
from the University of Houston. And then there is
the impact upon the whole of life wherever they be of
tens of thousands of well-educated mothers whom the
University of Houston is now proud to call alumnae.
And you who read this are party to its future pride
and accomplishments.
CLANTON W. WILLIAMS
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